VRML in Chemistry - Other Sites

Other Sites

Currently, there is a suprisingly small amount of chemistry related VRML sites on the WWW. Those that do exist are usually University sites, so tend to only give particually advanced topics. Ideally, there should be more aimed at lower levels of education. Below is a list of some other sites that use VRML do display chemistry related data.

VRML, Visualisation of PDB files

A very interesting site. Select the molecule you wish to view, and it will generate the VRML file for you. I haven't found another site as good as this one. Plenty of options, and a clear interface. The only slight downside is that you have to be a fairly advanced chemist to understand parts of this site.
http://ws05.pc.chemie.th-darmstadt.de/vrml/pdbvis.html

VRML, Visualisation Of Your Own PDB Files

Part of the site above, and also set out very well. This time though, you provide your own PDB file. Again, aimed at advanced chemists.
http://ws05.pc.chemie.th-darmstadt.de/vrml/urlvis.html

Chemical VRML Generation Service

Another good site, they provide a large number of ways for you to generate VRML files from chemical data. Again, unless you are either an advanced chemist, or have infinite amounts of free time, it is too complicated for many people to use.
http://schiele.organik.uni-erlangen.de/services/vrml.html

t-AlF3

This page has several VRML worlds in it, and it uses them well. It is infact more of a scientific report than the other pages here, so makes for interesting reading if it is your cup of tea. Plenty of different VRML worlds give a very good array of the differant methods of data representation available with VRML.
http://fluo.univ-lemans.fr:8001/motm/talf3v.html

Molda - Home Page

THIS IS IT !! This web page concerns a piece of software called "Molda". The package creates VRML files from other data. This is exactly the kind of software needed to allow Chemists with little knowledge of VRML to use VRML effectively.
http://cssj.chem.sci.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/molda/molda.htm

Library of 3-D Molecular Structures

Another site with several VRML worlds. However, I am not as impressed with this site as I am with some of the others here. The reason for this is the exceptionaly large size of the VRML files. Example, one file (for ice) was 931 Kbytes in size, and it takes too long to download. It does have several other links to related sites though.
http://www.nyu.edu/pages/mathmol/library/related.html

Bristol Molecule Of The Month Page

Whilst this site isn't specifically a VRML based site, it has links to sites from around the world that have used various methods to display chemical data well. You'll find that the pages here are amongst the best around.
http://www.bris.ac.uk/Depts/Chemistry/MOTM/motm.htm

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